2017 Lightwave Innovation Reviews Elite Scores

Our Award Program Manager, Joseph Berthold, assigned each entry to be reviewed by judges knowledgeable in the relevant technology or application. They rated each entry on the following scale:

0-1: Useful product, yet commodity

2-3: Solid product with viable attributes that set it apart

3-4: Excellent product with technical features and performance that provide clear and substantial benefits

4-5: Superb product that sets new standard for performance and provides groundbreaking and new technical milestones.

Our panel included:

• Saravan Asthi, Senior Software Engineer, Cisco
• Robert Blum, director, strategic marketing and business development, Intel Corp.
• Phillip Chan, Director, IP Solutions R&D, Huawei
• Brandon Collings, CTO, Optical Communications, CCOP, Lumentum
• Mike Frankel, Ciena Fellow, Ciena
• Jim Hayes, president, The Fiber Optic Association
• Daryl Inniss, director of new business development, OFS
• Tom Issenhuth, Optical Network Architect, Microsoft
• Peter Jones, Principal Engineer, Cisco
• Bikash Koley, Distinguished Engineer & Director, Network Architecture, Engineering & Planning Google
• Vladimir Kozlov, founder and CEO, LightCounting
• Bob Lee, Technical Advisor Cable Television and industry veteran
• Patrick McLaughlin, editor in chief, Cabling Installation & Maintenance
• Lawrence O'Neill, Director, Mobile Backhaul Center of Excellence, Verizon Partner Solutions
• Jim Theodoras, vice president of global business development, ADVA Optical Networking
• Matt Traverso, Principal Engineer, Cisco
• Ken Williams, Cable Industry Consultant and industry veteran
• Dr. Tiejun J. (TJ) Xia, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon
• Liyan Zhang, Director of Optical Network Technology, Cogent

We congratulate this year's participants for being brave enough to submit their products for review. As you'll see, the results indicate that innovation continues to be found across the fiber-optic communications landscape.

Electronics

• Keysight Technologies M8040A 64 GBaud High-performance BERT

Fiber, Cable, Enclosures, and Accessories

• Finisar Active Optical Cables Featuring Connectivity Diagnostics™

• OFS TeraWave™ ULL Single-Mode Optical Fiber

• Corning Optical Communications MiniXtend™ Cable with Binderless FastAccess™ Technology

Field Test Equipment

• VeEX MTTplus Platform with MTTplus-410 Fiber Optics Test Module

• Anritsu Network Master™ Flex MT1100A

• Viavi Solutions T-BERD/MTS 5800-100G Handheld Network Tester

• AFL FlexScan FS200-304 PON OTDR

• Viavi Solutions OSA-710 Optical Spectrum Analyzer Module for T-BERD/MTS-8000 Platform

• Viavi Solutions OneExpert DSL Modular Field Test Platform with G.fast

FTTx Products

• Calix E9-2 Intelligent Edge System
  

• AFL Wrapping Tube Cable (WTC) with Spider Web Ribbon (SWR)

• Clearfield FieldShield YOURx Platform

Lab/Production Test Equipment

• Ixia CloudStorm

• EXFO E2E R&D/Lab and Manufacturing Solution for Test Orchestration
  

• PI Fast Multichannel Photonics Alignment Engine for Silicon Photonics Probing, Test & Packaging
  
  
• Xena Networks XenaAppMix

• Anritsu PAM4 BER Test Solution Featuring MP1800A BERT and G0361A 64-Gbaud DAC
  

Optical Components

• Acacia Communications CFP2-DCO Module

• Finisar BPDV412x Photodetector

• Inphi ColorZ™

• Arrayed Fiberoptics Non-Contact MPO Fiber Connector

• Chemoptics Tunable SFP+ for CWDM Wireless Fronthaul Networks
  
  
• Inphi 400GbE PAM4 Platform

• MACOM MATA-37644/MALD-37645 Chipset

• Menara Networks CFP2 Adapter

• Senko Advanced Components MPO Plus Mini Connector

• ADTRAN Subscriber Edge Tunable (SET) Optics

• Menara Networks Tunable CFP-ODB 100-Gbps DWDM transceiver

Optical Subsystems

• Huawei OSN810

• Lumentum SDN Optical Whiteboxes

• II-VI Compact Embedded OTDR
  

• CAILabs Aroona

Optical Transport Platforms

• Ciena WaveLogic Ai

• CommScope ION-U

• Infinera DTN-X XT Series Meshponders

• Ciena WaveLogic Encryption

• Fujitsu Network Communications Smart CPRI Transport

• PacketLight Networks PL-2000AD Advanced 200G ADM in 1RU